Budget Questions??!?!?!?

My FI and I set our budget at 10k. We are having our wedding in Las Vegas (that’s where he lives right now). Everything quickly added up to nearly 17k. Even taking away the plane tickets for me to get there we have nearly doubled our budget! And even with that it doesn’t feel like we’re getting a lot! Also not to mention, we invited 110 people and we have 17 confirmed with an RSVP date of 5 July. I hate the idea of looking back and thinking we spent $20,000 on a party for 19 people! Anyone else have this problem? Is this normal for a Vegas wedding? (also it’s not a ‘classic’ Vegas wedding…)

Most of our guests are either in Kentucky or California. And I know a lot couldn’t attend, I’m more concerned that the wedding cost SO much and there’s so few people coming and it still feels like we are missing things. Like we aren’t even having a DJ, a rehearsal dinner, or an aisle runner just to name a few…

I think we’re at the point of no return now tho, lol. (as far as costs out)

Personally, honestly, unless I’m really close to the couple, I would never go to Vegas in the summer time unless I don’t mind roasting or being cooped up with cig smoke while trying to escapee the heat. The heat is enough to deter me away from going there.

If some of your guests are form Kentucky, it may not be that much of change for them.

@CARA1978: well… We’re not going to Vegas for a destination wedding. It happens to be we where my fiancé lives. If we’d had it in Kentucky then it would have been a dw for us. No win in the situatioI I guess. but I am by no means complaining about who’s attending. We’re okay with a small party. It’s really the out of control budget lol. I just don’t know how it got away from us. Vegas isn’t cheap I guess!

@jayjaybee: you’re right, we budgeted $5k for the food and alcohol but with less people RSVP’ing than we thought that has been cut in half. A huge chunk of our budget went to helping with plane tickets, about $3k. Also, I am putting everything on our budget. If I buy ribbon on regular grocery trip I add that $1.99 lol. It adds up. I just wonder if when people are looking at their budget and what’s spent if they’re really being honest? Also, if we were to take away the cost of helping other family get there I guess it would look better. We have already cut lighting and flowers. (We’re going to use the MOH bouquet to create centerpieces & we’re using the reception site linens). My FI is starting to get frustrated and I just don’t see where we went wrong! 🙁